Many report developers find the SSAS data provider too restrictive for authoring reports from UDM. Instead, they replace it with the native Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0 […]
In case you’ve missed it, the SSRS team has started a SQL Server Katmai Reporting Services forum and eagerly awaits your feedback.
One of most important enhancements coming up in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services is the new tablix region. In fact, I dare to predict that many folks will upgrade to […]
The need for a stand-alone Report Designer is real. True, developers, including myself, enjoyed the VS.NET Report Designer. But novice users were overwhelmed with the complexity of the VS.NET IDE […]
This is my first blog about SSRS 2008. The July CTP (CTP4) of SQL Server 2008 (aka Katmai) includes the new hosting model of Reporting Services. Gone is the dependency […]
I’ve come across a good best practices article about scaling out SSAS by Denny Lee and Nicholas Dritsas. It describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft […]
July CTP of SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is out. On the BI side of things: New SSRS Report Engine “Improvements represent the two major infrastructure changes for Reporting Services. Reporting […]
If you have a cube with large dimensions you may have come across the following error: The expression contains a function that cannot operate on a set with more than […]
From the latest MS press release “In anticipation for the most significant Microsoft enterprise event in the next year, Turner announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft […]
I was setting up Reporting Services 2005 today on a clean Windows XP machine and I came across the infamous error: The report server has encountered a configuration error. See […]
